The Path To Psychopathy
MAKING OF A PSYCHOPATH
The path to psychopathy can begin with traumas suffered as a child. Poor upbringing and pain - either psychological or physical pain, tend to render the receiver disconnected from emotion.
Emotional intelligence enables the individual to emphasise with others, for sharing feelings associated with the perceived pains. A child in their formative years, functions within the mostly Theta brain wave state. This is a receptive program state, where the behaviours can be instilled within the child, which benefits the individual and society in later years or harmful patterns of behaviour can be carried forward into adulthood, where the behaviours have negative aspects.
A child or long-suffering adult, who has experienced a lack of love, will be mostly unable to reciprocate love or will be inverted to love and tenderness, displaying traits of self-abasement, sadomasochistic and perverted sexual nature.
The Dark Triad Types
There are three main aspects of the dark triad including psychopathy, seen as a 'personality disorder'. Narcissism and Machavialianism. Essentially, those in the 'spectrum ' of psychopathy, tend to be extremely selfish, manipulative and have high intelligence. There are various online psychopathy tests to see how much of a master manipulator we are – which appears to be a reverse compliment and something to be mindful of at the same time.
Everybody has 'unique to the individual' personality traits. Somebody who is charming and outspoken, confident and ambitious, can also be a psychopath. The term psychopath can be misleading, however, as it is used by those who lack outward-facing personality traits. Modesty and privacy are preferences of the introvert and a common misconception by many is that outwardly aggressive, career-focused over-achievers, can be the worst personalities for expressing most anti-social tendencies. However, the passive-aggressive type can be the least obvious to spot and the most damaging to all other personality types.
The Big Five personlities are: Openness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism. These are claimed to be measures for assessing one's personality. There is also a six-factor modal called Hexaco – which adds 'Honesty-humility' to the Big Five.
There are many types of tests for assessing personality types, although the type can and does change with environmental factors, within peer groups, with stressors and age. Of the personality types, the Myers Briggs has 16 but the Enneagram type has 9, with paths of inclination and delineation for each type which under stress.
The Enneagrams allow for preferences of Heart, Body and Mind, with inversions or shadow expressions that form psychopathic pathways. Each of the personality types is revealed at their best and worst on their upward and downward paths.
Psychopaths, Machiavellians and Narcissists are all badges we attach to those lacking in self-awareness when it comes to the concerns of others. For those with low pain thresholds, low fear response and high intelligence favouring stoicism, who are sometimes perceived as 'anti-social' – it's good to bare in mind that firemen, soldiers, surgeons and world leaders are all useful in society, yet they display tendencies of psychopathy. This is because, the fireman or soldier, has to put themselves in dangerous situations. Surgeons need to reconstruct faces and world leaders need to make difficult decisions – requiring a certain level of 'dis-association' in order to perform the tasks in hand.
Essentially, all unhealthy habits and traits are expressions of sadness and insecurity. Personality is fluid in nature – and why 'defining' someone on their fixed characteristics/preferences is wrong. The shadow reveals itself through negative emotions, such as envy and hatred of those who have success and happiness. Serial killers and sex offenders are usually loners and have low self-esteem. While it is important to be aware of individuals expressing symptoms of dangerous personality disorders, it is also useful to recognise our own selfishness and lack of compassion for others, in order to help those who are most in need of love and reassurance.
The Hero's Path
The path to psychopathy can start in childhood and progress throughout adulthood, but with applied practices of self-reflection and 'know thyself', any anti-social tendencies formed from habits or traumas in early life can be overcome, to create heroic pathways. The person who recognises the most awful traits in themselves is awakened to the traits being expressed in others. Therefore – a reformed psychopath can be one of the greatest achievers of self-mastery.


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